Mr. T Quotes

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

He in Washington who does not toot his own horn may find it untooted.

Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public …. A man must be his own trumpeter—he must write or dictate paragraphs of praise in the newspapers; he must dress, have a retinue and equipage; he must ostentatiously publish to the world his own writings with his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.

I'm not a publicity hound. I don't care about being on the cover of 'GQ' or 'Vanity Fair.'

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

I've never really sought out publicity.

I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

You never toot your own horn.